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Giancarlo Stanton held the MLB record for highest exit velocity at 122.2 miles per hour (196.7 km/h) from 2015 to 2022. In baseball statistics, exit velocity (EV) is the estimated speed at which a batted ball is travelling as it is coming off the player's bat.
On August 20 he hit a home run with an exit velocity of 117.4 mph, the highest for a home run by a Blue Jay in the Statcast era (since 2015), and the third-highest exit velocity of any batted ball for all major leaguers in 2020 (behind Pete Alonso (118.4) and Gary Sanchez (117.5)).
His highest exit velocity was 110.6. The fourth ball he put in play this spring — a rocket groundout to shortstop — was lasered at 110.8. Now, as the season gets rolling and the rugged ...
While she fell short of breaking Amanda Coker's overall woman's record, Ms. Searvogel was awarded the highest annual mileage record, [100] and highest month mileage record 4,021 miles (6,471 km) in the 50–59 age category by the UMCA (now WUCA). [84]
[85] [31] He tied the lowest RBI total ever by a player with 25 or more homers (Ron Gant also hit 26 home runs with 54 RBIs, in 2000). [86] He also tied Matt Kemp for the Dodgers franchise strikeout record, with 170 (3rd in the National League). [69] His exit velocity on a batted ball of 114.3 mph was in the top 4% of all major leaguers. [87]
Aug. 20—Idle Thoughts, while waiting for UConn football (OK, not really), the Yankees to mix in a line drive and for Serena to win the U.S. Open: Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, happened ...
Johnny Vander Meer's elusive record of back-to-back no-hitters in 1938 has been described as "the most unbreakable of all baseball records" [1] by LIFE. Some Major League Baseball (MLB) records are widely regarded as "unbreakable" because they were set by freak occurrence or under rules, techniques, or other circumstances that have since changed.
In 1972, Eddy Merckx set a new hour record at 49.431 km (30.715 mi) in Mexico City at an altitude of 2,300 m (7,500 ft) where he proclaimed it to have been "the hardest ride I have ever done". [ 12 ] The record would stand for 12 years until in January 1984, Francesco Moser set a new record at 51.151 km (31.784 mi).